The freedom to configure is the freedom to make a better world. - Cory Doctorow (EFF)

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Channel: O'Reilly · 2018 · Science & Technology

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Chances are you fell in love with technology the day you took some tool that didn't quite work for you and made it better—better suited to you and your idiosyncratic needs and uses. Then you shared your improvements and made other people's lives better too, and what sweeter feeling is there? Cory Doctorow explains why the right to configure is the signature right of the 21st century.

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